Association between lifestyle modifications and improvement of early cardiac damage in children and adolescents with excess weight and/or high blood pressure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is not known whether, in children and adolescents with alterations in weight and/or blood pressure (BP), lifestyle modifications are associated with an improvement of early cardiac damage.

Methods

In a pediatric population referred for excess weight, high BP, or both (n = 278, 10.6 (2.3) years), echocardiography was performed at enrollment and after 15 months of follow-up, during which participants received nonpharmacological treatment, based on correcting unhealthy lifestyles and improving dietary habits. Left ventricular mass was indexed for height (g/m^2.7, LVMI), and an LVMI value higher than or equal to age- and gender-specific 95^th percentile was the criterion for defining left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Multiple linear and logist

SUBMITTER: Genovesi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10584714 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature